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Yes, the rumor is true! Metal legends Metallica will perform in Hong Kong for the first time on January 20! Watch the clip above of Lars Ulrich sharing this amazing news with you! Tickets will be on sale from October 27 (Thur) at 10:00am at hkticketing.com

Hong Kong’s no.1 live house will re-open on December 15th with our beloved Pittsburgh political punk rock veterans Anti-Flag in the house! Get ready to wash the brand new floor with sweat, anger and all of your hidden power! The band will be playing their classic album “For Blood And Empire” in its entirety to celebrate its 10th anniversary! Joey The Gangster from Indonesia will also be sharing the same stage – so get there earlier because the show is freeee! (Scroll down for details)

You can read our Overseas Features of Anti-Flag’s North America tour for preview HERE.

Woooow ready for another gig news? Djent master Periphery finally announced details for their upcoming Asia Tour! The band will be playing in Hong Kong at Hidden Agenda on February 15th and in Taipei at Legacy 傳-音樂展演空間 on 14th! This is our writers’ special pick of 2017 – don’t miss it metalheads! Stay tuned for ticketing info*

Australia thrash / death metal band Truth Corroded will be back to Hong Kong and Taiwan again from November 25-30 as part of their Worship The Warlords Slain Tour! Grindcore veterans Truth Be Known from Singapore, Hong Kong’s very own thrash outfits CharmCharmChu, deathcore rising stars Parallel Horizons and thrash / nu-metal group Intellectual MORONs will share the same stage with TC. One night, five bands – what are you waiting for?!

Yellowcard Farewell Tour details announced! The show will be held at Music Zone (KITEC) on February 8th and you can meet the band at the VIP Meet & Greet Session! This will be the last tour before they disband – don’t miss this opportunity and get your tickets while it lasts!

Pop rock new releases gain huge support from music fans! Green Day’s latest album, Revolution Radio, has scored the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s 200 Chart, earning 95,000 album units in the first week of since its release on October 7. The band’s 2004 album American Idiot and 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown also hit No. 1 as well. On the other hand, another comeback album – Sum 41’s 13 Voices, also out on Oct 7, was landed at No. 22! Post-hardcore outfits Dance Gavin Dance’s 7th album, Mothership, marked the group’s highest-selling first-week sales in the band’s 11-year career, made it to No. 13 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Go support your favorite and buy their records!

CONGRATULATIONS! Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. “Subterranean Homesick Blues” is one of Dylan’s most well-known and classics in his 50 years’ discography. This is also the first Dylan song thiswriter had heard at the age of 10. Hope you’ll enjoy our pick as well!

After a series of mysterious teaser (death bat logo projection in various countries, photo of their faces covered with crosses – see photo in comment thread) Avenged Sevenfold finally revealed long-awaited new song, “The Stage”! The mid-century style cinematography and puppets manipulated by human beings strikes chill to your heart.

Korn revealed high quality live video for “A Different World” which featuring Slipknot / Stone Sour’s frontman Corey Taylor at Louder Than Life Festival. You can find “A Different World” on Korn’s The Serenity of Suffering album, out on Oct 21. You can watch the original, freaky animated video above.

One of the best news in the post-hardcore scene is when Underoath announced a series of intimate reunion concert this year. The band had arose thunderous singalong during their performance in Chicago last month from the first song to the last. They chose to end the set with “Reinventing Your Exit,” lead single off Underoath’s 4th album, They Are Chasing For Safety, released in 2004. (📸: @mohawmajorie)

[FLASHBACK] Anti-Flag – Live in Chicago

Flashback to our 2014 <Overseas Features> when Anti Flag’s very own Chris Number2 stage-dived into the vigorous crowd! The band will play in Hong Kong on December 15th with punk rockers Joey The Gangster from Indonesia! (Scroll up for details)

Limp Bizkit’s album ‘Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water’ was released 16 years ago today. Despite of all the controversy, it remains as one of the most well-known nu-metal album in the 2000s with singles like “Rollin’.“